07 / 07 / 2010
Russia: managed democracy, stifled economy. Democracy Digest.
Dmitri Medvedev’s purported efforts to modernize Russia’s sclerotic, resource-dependent economy and encourage innovation is constrained by the elite’s obsession with control, writes Samuel Charap, associate director for Russia and Eurasia at the Center for American Progress:
Just as managed democracy has preserved the formal aspects of democracy without the substance of democratic norms and practices, managed [...]